The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-03-18
THE JERSEY LILY.
THE REASON WHY MRS. LANG
TRY WENT ON THE STAGE.

Why She Separated from Her Husband.
Her Friendship for Freddy Gebhard.
A Laudable Desire to Get Eich-ru'
ture Prospects.
Mr.. Charles Mendum, who for two years
was tho private and intimate business mana
ger Of Mrs. Langtry, does not believe that
tho Lily will marry Mr.. Fred Gebhard for
some time to come.
"Whcn Mrs. Langtry hos all the money in
her own right and name that she wants, "
said Mr. Mendum, "then she may marry"
"Her whole idea is to become independently
well or and possess fortune she has made
by her own exertions. Rich as Fred Geb-
hard Is, she would not be satisfied to divide
his money. What she wants is her own. She
has hut two great breads in liAe-one is get
ting old and the other Is to be poor and old
She often said to me, and II was evidently,
therefore, an idea that stuck to her: ~ want
q half a million securely invested 30 that /
cannot lose it. Then shall leave the stage
and devote myself to myself Until then
nothing shall swerve me to this side or that. !"
Mr.. Mendum thinks the Lily now has from
$3.50 900 to 500, 900 put aside-all of tpretty
nearly in American mortgages. At first she
sent her money to England for investment
about $4,000 of it. After that she got all
American lawyer and began her American
investments, which, all of them, bring her
from to G per cent. fully double the interest
she would get in England.
II was in the parlor car" went on Mr..
Mendum, "with my wife the whole time that
Fred Gerhard Travelled in it, Mrs Langtry
and he would meet at meals, but generally in
the daytime she would retire to her own
drawing room. Sometimes, when she was III
good humor we would all play cards to-
gether for small stakes The fact IS, she soon
found the value of Gerhard as an advertise
ment, and humored him accordingly Love
him, no. There was never the slightest indi-
cation of even interest in him so far as
could see. You can always leave those things
to woman, and my wife was of precisely the
same opinion as I was
ale was always very polite and deferen-
tial, and never attempted the slightest famil
iarity. He never gave her a present during
the whole time he Travelled with us, but every
night he sent her q bouquet. It did not mat
ter where we were, he always managed to
have the bouquet on hand. Sometimes he
had to have them sent from other cities.
These bouquets usually decorated the break
fast table the next morning"
"How about the likelihood Of divorcer'
asked the reporter.
"There was no likelihood when was with
her, and she evidently appeared satisfied with
the mutually agreed upon separation that had
taken place between herself and her husband.
He had promised never to come near her. On
one occasion it was reported that he was very
i'll and she showed great deal of emotion-a
surprising demonstration on the part of so
absolutely cold woman. It is this GOODNESS
that settles in my mind the story that she has
fallen in love with Fred Gerhard It is quite
possible, however, that some understanding
has been arrived at about divorce. She has
not seen her husband for several years and
their separation has lasted now for more than
five. suppose, therefore, divorce might be
obtained without trouble. It is quite certain
that the old affair is off forever
" remember Mrs. Langtry telling me the
facts Of this separation and they are rather
curious. The Langtrys had been in London
society for several years. and while money
had been going out absolutely nothing offered
itself whereby something would come in. At
last Mrs. Langry became desperate. Her So
CAoA ouSSCcoCo Aou OCOA VCA J SACdU AL AOHuOu,
but these very successes cost great deal of
money. At length it came to the time when
only few hundred pounds were left. Mr.
Langtry had been doing nothing and she had
been urging him to find some business that
would give him maintenance She got a
sum from her father, and with what she al
ready had secured enough to buy an interest
in the photograph, then great invention
lei ~l 81 L.
the money she had purchased an interest in
the instrument for several Of the counties,
and Mr.. Langtry went down to Bradford, I
think it was, to work it. She waited for one,
two and three weeks to hear from him, but
not q word came.
"Finally she determined on trip down to
to see what had become of the pho
nograph and Mr.. Langtry. She got there,
and to her amazement found that not thing
had been done, that the photograph had not
even been started OH its career, and that all
the money Mr.. Langtry had with him was
gone with his boon companions. Bitter re-
ensued and they parted forever.
The following week Mrs. Langtry accepted
an engagement from the Kendals to play at
EGO a week. She crowded the Haymarket
theatre. Then they wanted her to go on a
tour through the country at the same price,
but she saw that if she could draw in London
she could draw still better in the provinces,
80 she went on her own hook. She played to
the biggest money ever known in the large
centers She was anxious, however, to get
to America, and wanted badly an American
manager, Somebody suggested Henry E.
Abbey, and by pure luck he fell into a ire
mendous success, but one which he worked |
up beautifully"
"Do you believe Mrs. Langtry will marry
II don't know. Who can tell the mind of a |
But if Fred Gerhard gets her he |
will get one of the finest women alive. New |
York Journal
Method in this Madness.
There is possibly some method in Anglo |
mania, after all, like certain other forms of |
madness. have been led to look upon the |
perfect dude, the incredible American imits-
lion of the low bred Englishman, who has
overwhelmingly common here in Boston,
with new appreciation since read a frag-
nent of dialogue from Paris paper at the
club yesterday. This journal goes on to des-
,ribe certain Bobinard, who, it says, has
AIKEN to passing himself off as an English